Spam to Old Unique Email Addresses

Over the past two weeks I’ve started getting spam that was sent to various unique email addresses I had given to sites upon account registration. These sites include:

ShowCrew Network

Google Groups

Knight News Challenge

AirplayDirect.com

AuctionAds.com (originally an Ebay Ad System, now fallen into the clutches of an educational scammer)

washingtoncitypaper.com

While I don’t see any immediate connection between these companies, all of my registrations took place at last two years ago. I’d guess that either the spam-spiders have been making new efforts at leeching email addresses off of old websites, or all of these services were using some central system to manage their mailing lists and that system was compromised.

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